From: Matt Rohrer <rohrer@hawaii.edu> To: "Brian J. McGovern" <mcgovern@spoon.beta.com> Cc: Alex Charalabidis <alex@wnm.net>, brent@kearneys.ca, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, jfn@enteract.com Subject: Re: AMD Athlon and booting Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0003161507560.22292-100000@uhunix1> In-Reply-To: <200003170046.TAA33942@spoon.beta.com>
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I just built an FIC SD-11/Athlon 500 box yesterday and installed 3.3 Release and CVSuped to 3.4 Stable with no problems. I seem to remember something on the list a few days ago about the same type of errors when using USB keyboards during install. Is your keyboard USB? On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Brian J. McGovern wrote: > Actually, I, too, have an SD-11. No crashes yet with a week or so of run time. > I'm getting ready to reinstall and run some heavy graphics processing on it. > I'll let you know if I hit anything. > > OTOH, the keyboard missing problem has shown up on several (non-FIC) Athlon > motherboards I have access to. > > -Brian > > > On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Brian J. McGovern wrote: > > > > > Hey, guys. I went a slightly different route than playing with the numlock > key > > > to get FreeBSD running. The problem seems to really be the -P (probe the > > > keyboard) boot option, and it setting -D and -h when it doesn't find it. M > y > > > "workaround" was to make boot floppies, and edit boot.conf to remove the - > P > > > (or delete the file if there are no other options). > > > > > > Once done, it just happily boots up and installs. Looks like keyboard prob > ing > > > may need some work for Athlon processors, so i'm cc'ing this to the hacker > s > > > list, so hopefully, some console guru can take a look at it. > > > > > > Also, if no one has done it so far, let me know, and I'll submit a pr. > > > > > The problem might actually be with the SD-11 board. I built two K7 500s on > > SD-11 boards a while ago (3.4-STABLE) and am not at all happy with them. > > In fact, I was able to bring only one of them into production and live > > with it randomly crashing every now and then... the other one crashed too > > frequently and is headed for the RMA department. What I've seen points to > > a motherboard problem and not a FreeBSD problem so, if anyone has evidence > > to the contrary, I'd like to hear it. > > > > > > -ac > > > > -- > > ============================================================== > > Alex Charalabidis (AC8139) 5050 Poplar Ave, Ste 170 > > Systems Administrator Memphis, TN 38157 > > WebNet Memphis (901) 432 6000 > > Author, The Book of IRC http://www.bookofirc.com/ > > ============================================================== > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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